Cineraria geraniifolia Dc.

Perennial herb, frequently 0.3-0.4 m tall, but may reach 0.8 m in length. Stems slender, herbaceous to woody near the base, often decumbent at the base and rooting there, glabrous, or occasionally sparsely hairy, glabrescent. Leaves reniform to reniform-pinnatifid to lyrate-pinnatisect (frequently in uppermost leaves), shallowly to deeply (3-)5-7 lobed, often with 1-3 pairs of pinnae below lamina; lamina 6-23(-55) × 7-24(-37) mm, glabrous above or sparsely hairy at base, glabrescent, sparsely hairy to hairy below, mainly on the veins; apex acute to obtuse to rounded; margin coarsely dentate; base subcordate to cordate (to truncate in lamina of lyrate-pinnatisect leaves); petiole 8-41(-80) mm long, hairy to sparsely hairy, glabrescent; auricles usually small, sometimes fairly conspicuous, varying from widening of petiole base to auriform and dentate. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, solitary or in two or four's (occasionally as many as 7 or 8) per stem branch; peduncles (15-)21-116(-195) mm long, glabrous, sparsely bracteate, bracts usually 1.5-2.5 mm long, 4-7(-10) mm long at base of peduncle, linear or narrowly lanceolate. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries (8-)12-13, (3.5-)4.0-6.0 mm long, glabrous; margins scarious. Ray florets (5-)8-13, (6.0-)7.0-14.2 mm long; limb 4.5-11.0 mm long, 4-veined (occasionally 5-veined). Disc florets 22-56; corolla 3.5-5.5(-6.0) mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, often with a prominent median rib when mature, narrow-winged (to margined when mature), brown to dark brown, usually with a paler wing, 1.9-3.0 mm long, glabrous. Pappus to base of disc corolla lobes.